人类婚姻形态的发展与政治文明的发展息息相关。尽管世界各民族早期的婚姻形态复杂多变,但在传承子嗣、扩大势力、增强威权与获取利益等功利方面的诉求是一致的。《尚书·尧典》“尧降二女”反映着中国早期婚姻形态中的“媵婚”,《周易·归妹》“帝乙归妹”则反映着“试婚”,二者质同形异,且与上古禅让过渡到世袭的演变互为表里,是诠释中国传统文化的重要视闽。
The development of human's marital pattern is closely tied with development in political civilization. Though different nations in the world have complicated and varied early-period marital pattern, they are in agreement in inheriting offspring, expanding influence, enhancing authority, gaining interest and appealing to material benefit. Yinghun( maid accompanying a bride to her new home) and shihun(trial marriage) as a marital pattern in remote antiquity are the same in nature despite difference in form, which interacts with abdicating and handing over crown to another person in hereditary evolution as an important visual field of interpreting traditional Chinese culture.